While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.

Medicine for the dead is too late.

It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.

A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.

Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.